To update you all on an earlier post about the speed camera poll on the Lothian and Borders safety camera partnership website we can confirm that the no vote came through with a huge majority. Unlike Labour in the Glasgow East By election we wont be demanding a recount. It therefore comes as no surprise [...]
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Today it was announced that the government will be scrapping their October rise in fuel duty. Already delayed from March this has come as a welcome concession from the government who have driven the knife into the motorists wallet solidly over the last decade.
Record oil prices have caused a 20% hike in fuel prices since [...]
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North Somerset Council the local authority who govern the town of Swindon have decided to pull their funding out of the local safety camera partnership. At present they contribute £400,000 to the scheme which operates a number of fixed and mobile speed traps in the city. They have decided that the money would be better [...]
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At a time when the government are at their lowest ebb, the economy is on it’s knees, inflation is up and consumers are feeling the most financial pain in over a decade it would seem mad to raise road tax by a vast margin. But that’s what Labour plan to do. It’s been labeled as [...]
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A German company by the name of Pro Contour have won a design award for their laser triangulating system that can read the tread depth of a tyre on a car while it’s moving. When on show in Germany the road enforcement authorities were showing a lot of interest in the device.
The device can be [...]
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Lothian and Borders safety camera partnership have followed their Yorkshire colleagues in an attempt to poll viewers of their web site on the effectiveness of speed cameras. In fact, we chose to write this article today while the poll was still live because much like the Yorkshire poll there is a huge majority No vote. [...]
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A civilian speed camera operative who was working for Lancashire constabulary has been sacked for failing to operate speed cameras in accordance with their instructions. He then lied on court papers stating that he had in fact conducted the speed checks correctly. As a result of his actions over 500 cases have had to be [...]
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The Yorkshire safety camera partnership, or casualty reduction partnership, as they like to be called, have pulled a poll off of their website because most of the votes on the poll were not in favor of speed cameras. The poll was initially put up on their website and asked for a yes, no or [...]
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